GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A crowning achievement
PAUL DONOVAN recommends a great production of an immaculate adaptation, delivered with tremendous power by an excellent cast
[Marc Brenner]
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Mirror and the Light
Gielgud Theatre
THIS production of the Mirror and the Light represents a brilliant final part of the trilogy of plays tracking the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell.
It has been a while in arriving, coming seven years, after the dramatisation of the first two books Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.
This time the star of those plays, Ben Miles plus director Jeremy Herrin, have collaborated with writer Hilary Mantel to bring this production to the stage.
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